Let L-410 prototype

[upnorth]

Hello all,

 

This weekend I broke out the paints and did my first more involved painting on a very long time. I didn't go all out with details as it was a practive piece and small in size.

 

 

This painting shows the prototype of the Let L-410 Turbolet passing over Buchlov castle in the south east of the Czech Republic. Buchlov is quite close to the Let aircraft factory at the Kunovice airport.

It was a bit of fantasy as I used one of my own pictures of Buchlov from about 2016. I couldn't find any pictures of what it looked like when the L-410 made its first flight in 1969.

The L-410 protoype still survives and is in the collection of the aviation museum in Kunovice, Czech Republic. In 2019, for the 50th anniversary of the L-410, the museum restored the prototype to the appearance it had at the time of the first flight.

This painting takes it a step further and plays with the idea of the prototype being brought back to fully flyable status.

The painting is acrylic on paper at A4 size and took most of a weekend to do.

[bobsyouruncle]

Very nice. I like your composition and you've got some nice work going on with the reflections of light on the aircraft surfaces.

Gives it a very nice three dimensional feel. 

[HOUSTON]

INCREDIBLY good painting. 

 

 

Thank you